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Thursday, August 16, 2012

Speaking of negative ads....

The ugly presidential campaign

Forgive me, but I’m not prepared to join this walk down Great Umbrage
Street just yet. Yes, it’s ugly out there. But is this worse than four
years ago, when Obama was accused by the GOP vice presidential nominee
of “palling around with terrorists”? Or eight years ago, when Democratic
nominee John Kerry was accused of falsifying his Vietnam War record?

What’s
different this time is that the Democrats are employing the same harsh
tactics that have been used against them for so long, with so much
success. They have ceased their traditional response of assuming the
fetal position when attacked, and Obama’s campaign is giving as good as
it gets — and then some.